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WHO LIVES AT THE ZOO?

Mystic

Age: 2 years on July 6

Height: About 11 feet

Weight: 700 to 900 pounds

Born: Denver Zoo in Colorado

In the wild: Live on grasslands in northern Kenya in Africa.

Family: Mothers have one baby at a time. Other females in the herd help raise the babies.

Food: In the wild, leaves, twigs and bark. At the zoo, alfalfa hay and grain pellets.

Fun fact: The zoo doesn't have a scale to weigh giraffes, so zookeepers can only guess.

Click below to hear Zookeeper Heather Krueckeberg tell you more about Mystic the giraffe.

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